Overview to User Mapping Tool (Legacy) overview-user-mapping-tool

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This documentation refers to a deprecated version of the tool. For more information on the latest version, see User Mapping and Principal Migration.

Introduction introduction

As part of the transition journey to Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a Cloud Service, you must move users and groups from your existing AEM system to AEM as a Cloud Service. This migration is done by the Content Transfer Tool.

A major change to AEM as a Cloud Service is the fully integrated use of Adobe IDs for accessing the author tier. This integration requires use of the Adobe Admin Console for managing users and user groups. The user-profile information is centralized in the Adobe Identity Management System (IMS) that provides single sign-on across all Adobe cloud applications. For more details, see Identity Management. Because of this change, existing users and groups must be mapped to their IMS IDs to avoid duplicate users and groups on the Cloud Service author instance.

User Mapping Tool mapping-tool

The Content Transfer Tool (without User Mapping) migrates any users and groups associated with the content being migrated. The User Mapping Tool is a part of Content Transfer Tool. Its sole purpose is to edit the users so that they are recognized correctly by IMS, the single sign-on functionality used by AEM as a Cloud Service. After these modifications are done, the Content Transfer Tool migrates the specified content’s users and groups as usual.

What’s Next whats-next

Once you have learned what a User Mapping tool is, you are now ready to review important considerations and exceptional cases before using the User Mapping Tool. See Important Considerations for User Mapping Tool for more details.

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